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One of the things I've been really excited to see in Sydney is Powerhouse Museum, which is their design museum. While I tend to dislike flat art, I like stuff (sculpture, objects, how they work, etc), and I've been keen on this particular thingy. And then today I was reading the Sydney Morning Herald and found out the Lord of the Rings exhibit some of my friends in other cities have seen is going to be there when I am there. So keen and happy. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/ You can even go to the exhibit on weekend evenings and wander about with a glass of wine. Drunk hobbity things!

Also, I've found two restaurants in Darlinghurst I'm just mad to try, and one is even cheap. Also psyched about checking out the pubs that all argue about whether they are the oldest one in Sydney (and they all have excellent, ridiculous names right out of the age of sail (you know Lord Nelson this and Lord Nelson that)).

And the Australian National Maritime Museum has two exhibits that should amuse me to no end -- "sailor style" which, yes, is about sailor uniforms in art, film and design and a thing about clocks and timepieces and stuff. Muahahahaa.

The magical intersection of my obsessions seems to be in full force yet again.

There's so much stuff I want to do, I'm going to have to startmaking a list and trying to figure out how to fit everything in, what with being busy every day from 10 - 5.

It's beginning to dawn on me what an incredible orgy of geekery this trip is going to be. Boats, horses, costumes, Lord of the Rings, acting -- just, woah... dude. /keanu off.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I feel like such a dork asking some of these questions, but living here I always have to deal with idiot tourists and I'm trying hard not to be one in turn. It actually reminds me a little of when I went to New Orleans, which is filled with fae sleeze, but is also a real fascinating place.

[darkdevotchka.livejournal.com]

No worries - just ask away! I have always wanted to go to New Orleans, and Las Vegas for that matter, but I'd imagine Vegas would be the epitome of fake sleaze.

As before, the only place I'd recommend staying away from is the Cinema and Game Arcade stretch of George Street (the main st). Really tacky, and an embarrassment to Sydneysiders like me if New Yorkers like you see it!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Lol. Okay.

I've only been to Vegas once -- and while the sleeze is really fake unless you explore things you really shouldn't be... it's so sincere, and that's sort of fun. That said there's a casino with a New York theme which I loathe. I stayed in the Luxor and that was cool, and I got a big kick out of the Star Trek ride at one of the other casinos. The only thing that sucked was I was there for a week on business, and it's just too damn long. Won a couple hundred bucks though.

Which reminds me... I know you all have casinos -- what's the demographic like -- here everyone goes to Vegas, but the other stuff on the east coast like Atlantic city and all is just old people and it's really depressing.